Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar praised India's 25-year-old opener Abhishek Sharma, calling him a "sensational player". "And he's pretty good-looking as well," he added. Manjrekar further said, "It's a god-given talent. The other thing to like about him is that he is extremely unselfish." Notably, the Amritsar-born left-hander scored 68*(20) in the third India-New Zealand T20I in Guwahati.